On Sunday morning, before helping Crystal Palace reach the FA Cup semi-finals with a win over Everton, Tyrick Mitchell was close to tears. An SMS has landed on his phone from the Football Association and he invites you to join Gareth Southgate’s England squad for the first time this week. Brent’s son, who grew up in the shadow of Wembley Stadium with a childhood that few could have imagined, was in trouble.
“He’s a pessimist,” said Abdi Farah, Mitchell’s mentor, who first met him as a youth worker for local authority and became a de facto father of a nine-year-old boy. “He does not believe anything until he sees it, until he smells it and bites it. He probably thinks people like him should not be
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